Tag: The Paris Review

This week, we’re sharing stories from Seema Jilani, Katy Kelleher, Carina del Valle Schorske, Martin Padgett, and Ben Lindbergh.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Wesley Lowery, Sarah Bellamy, Shawn Yuan, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, and Gabrielle Bellot.

“What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Wurtzel, Nick Martin, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, David Wolman, and Jason Turbow.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays. Jennifer Baker Publishing professional, contributing editor to Electric Literature, creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology. Lesson Plan: This Is […]

This week, we’re sharing stories from Brett Forrest, Lizzie Presser, Ahmet Altan, Lisa Miller, and James K. Williamson.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Brent Cunningham, CJ Hauser, Carla Bruce-Eddings, Caroline Rothstein, and Lisa Grossman.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Ijeoma Oluo, Patricia Lockwood, Michael Shaw, Mairead Small Staid, and Adriana Gallardo.

Digitization has changed the way readers experience literature — and examine themselves.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kashmir Hill, R.O. Kwon, Jaime Lowe, and Steve Edwards.

The Paris Review launches a monthly column to shine light on women writers from the past who have been under-recognized.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Chris Outcalt, Corie Brown, Daniel Immerwahr, Toniann Fernandez, and Karen Abbott.

Love and guilt about reality TV.

A political art project calls for everyone to wear nondescript coveralls.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Sloane Crosley, Jason Fagone, Bronwen Dickey, Heather Radke, and Kelly Conaboy.

Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.

On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.

After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.

Does art exist in the world of personality and petty grievance and predation, or does it float in a morally-neutral ether? Depends who you ask.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Anand Gopal and Azmat Khan, Claire Dederer, Dale Maharidge, Leslie Jamison, and Nina Coomes.

“The British kids were trying to escape the past as quickly as they could and the guitar offered them the best means to do that.”

The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Matthew Shaer, John Woodrow Cox, Bethany McLean, Robin Wright, and David Sedaris.

David Sedaris tallies a few of the many reasons he feels shame and sadness being an American in the time of Trump.

Being alone, free of distraction, can be both a writer’s dream and a nightmare.

At The Paris Review, Megan Mayhew Bergman looks to history to define what makes an adventurous woman.

“It makes sense that a person would come from another culture and do their poems, because everybody at Elko thinks they’re from another culture.”

At The Paris Review, writer and creative director Glenn O’Brien narrates the comic struggle of artists who decide to go into advertising.

“Her anger suddenly dissipated and was replaced again by longing.”